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Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2008, 23:37 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin, Fri, Oct 31, 2008 23:14:59 +0100:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
> 
> > ActiveState Perl on Windows is portable? To another windows, maybe.
> 
> /me wonders why you could not use the Perl that ships with Git for 
> Windows, at least for the purposes of Git.

Corporate policy and very-very incompetent IT service. Besides being illegal to install actually usable software, there are some of internal programs which are quite sensitive to perl (any other perl) appearing anywhere on disk, not to mention PATH (the build system, for one). Same for cygwin revisions.

I tried using other perl and more modern cygwin, and it can be made to work, but it is cumbersome and boring. And one more thing to reinstall after IT wipes your computer because you've got a new disk or they decided you need winxp instead of w2k, or something else... So I'm just trying reduce effort I put into what I'm not supposed to do at work anyway.

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  1. Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification timeAlex Riesen, Oct 29, 2008
  2. Jeff KingOct 29, 2008
  3. Alex RiesenOct 30, 2008
  4. Sam VilainOct 30, 2008
  5. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  6. Peter HarrisOct 31, 2008
  7. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2008
  9. Alex RiesenOct 31, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinNov 1, 2008
  11. Alex RiesenNov 1, 2008
  12. Johannes SchindelinNov 1, 2008
  13. Alex RiesenNov 2, 2008
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 2, 2008

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